11. Endnote

‘You take the blue pill, the story ends. You wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe.

‘You take the red pill, you stay in Wonderland — and I show how deep the rabbit hole goes.’

— The Matrix

Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.~Baltasar Gracian

Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.~J. Paul Getty

Central banks gold market manipulation is an example of action in a complex system that can cause the system to reach the critical state. . . . That central banks intervene in the gold market is neither new, nor surprising. To the extent that gold is money, and central banks control money, then central banks must control gold."~Jim RickardsSource: The Death of Money: The Coming Collapse of the World Monetary System.